TeraGrid tutorial now available online

March 23, 2004 
The "Applications in the TeraGrid Environment" tutorial that
was successfully presented at SC2003 in
Phoenix in November is now available online at
http://meonline.engin.umich.edu/TeraGrid/sc03.cfm.
Through video and slides, the tutorial provides an overview
of the TeraGrid
environment and configuration and describes the TeraGrid
services that are available to scientists.

Approximately 50 people attended the tutorial at SC03, which
was presented by experts from several TeraGrid partners:
John Towns from the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr from the San Diego
Supercomputer Center, Sandra Bittner from Argonne National
Laboratory, Derek Simmel from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center, and Sharon Brunett from the Center for Advanced
Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena.

The daylong tutorial is now available to a wider audience
thanks to the efforts of Scott Mahler and Roy Johnson of The
Center for Professional Development at The University of
Michigan's College of Engineering.

The TeraGrid is a
multi-year effort funded by the National Science Foundation
to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest distributed
infrastructure for open scientific research. When completed
later this year, the TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of
computing power, facilities capable of managing and storing
nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization
environments, and toolkits for grid computing. These
components will be tightly integrated and connected through
a network that will operate at 40 gigabits per second.
Currently, the first phase of the TeraGrid offers
researchers approximately 15 teraflops of computing power.